"Love Is AnImaginary Number" - читать интересную книгу автора (Zelazny Roger)

blinding speed through the dark wood. The pursuit continued, however.

Finally, I came upon a small clearing, a cairn piled high in its
center. I recognized it as a place of power, so I dismounted and freed the
unicorn, which promptly vanished.

I climbed the cairn and sat at its top. I lit a cigar and waited. I had
not expected to be located so soon, and it irritated me. I would confront
this pursuer here.

A sleek gray mare entered the clearing.

"Stella!"

"Get down from there!" she cried. "They are preparing to unleash an
assault any moment now!"

"Amen," I said. "I am ready for it."

"They outnumber you! They always have! You will lose to them again, and
again and again, so long as you persist in fighting. Come down and come away
with me. It may not be too late!"

"Me, retire?" I asked. "I'm an institution. They would soon be out of
crusades without me. Think of the boredom--"

A bolt of lightning dropped from the sky, but it veered away from my
cairn and fried a nearby tree.

"They've started!"

"Then get out of here, girl. This isn't your fight."

"You're mine!"

"I'm my own! Nobody else's! Don't forget it!"

"I love you!"

"You betrayed me!"

"No. You say that you love humanity."

"I do."

"I don't believe you! You couldn't, after all you've done to it!"

I raised my hand. "I banish thee from this Now and Here," I said, and I
was alone again.